Hi Emmanuel, We found the problem: It was caused by a ldif file containing groups with a member attribute with an empty string:
dn: cn=emptyGroup,ou=users,dc=example, dc=com objectClass: groupOfNames objectClass: top cn: emptyGroup member: During startup, the file was loaded and the groups were created without complaining. But as soon as ApacheDS was restarted for the first time, it started to throw the NPEs. We have eliminated that groups now and the NPE is gone. Bye, Tanja -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Lecharny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 20. August 2008 15:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: NPE during directory search Ulrich Knecht wrote: > Hi Emmanuel, > > thanks for the quick reply! The only binary objects I know > of in our schema are user password attributes. I'll have > a look how they get in and wether they might be inserted > as null values. However, a fix that would prevent the NPE > from happening would be just great. > It seems that in the next release (1.5.4) it might be gone. I don't know how to reproduce this problem, I tried, but with no success ... Do you have a test case ? -- -- cordialement, regards, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com directory.apache.org
